Re: (TFT) Flying combat

[Eric Coles <eac42@columbia.edu>]

Hi Aidan,

Normally in the many fictional times hero has engaged in HTH with 
flyer either 1) the flyer grabbed the hero, 2) the hero "got the 
drop" literally by being on a ledge or something and dropping down 
onto flyer (thus having the higher MA flying speed), or 3) caught the 
flyer on the ground.  I have a few extra talents in my game that 
would be helpful (I run a very wuxia oriented game - "light body" 
talents learnable).  Otherwise I would recommend either skills in 
certain peculiar weapons such as lasso, whip, bola, or using the 
optional Aimed Shots rule and go for the wing.

Best,

Eric


At 05:01 PM 11/3/2006, you wrote:
> Hi Eric. You wrote:
>
> " Adding 3 dimensions means that anytime the flyer adds some
> height, groundpounder can't reach/impede.  Thus, as long as the
> ceiling is high enough, I would rule the flyer not engaged, while 
> the groundpounder is, just as a backstabber is not engaged per the
> rules.  But the backstabbee is."
>
> I never thought of it that way. Good point. It does make some sense 
> to compare flier vs. ground to to backstabber vs. backstabbee. I 
> guess the effect is that regardless of whether or not you're 
> "engaged", if the critter is close enough for your weapon to reach 
> while in one of your front hex zones then you can attack it in melee.
>
> Now just how a ground guy goes into HTH with the flier is something 
> else! I think that you would not (could not) rely on MA because the 
> flight MA would always prevail and HTH would never occur without 
> agreement, except maybe in very confined spaces. In DT2, the rules 
> allow slimes to engage in HTH based upon +3 advantage on the 
> initiative regardless of the relation of their MA to the opponent. 
> If the flier is in the same hex (albeit above) or adjacent hex and 
> the ground pounder had a signficant initiative advantage, perhaps 
> some attempt could be made to grapple the hovering/passing flier as 
> long as it could otherwise conduct a melee attack. I don't know, 
> maybe you need acrobatics or UC talents. I can envision this 
> happening in an upcoming game. I just want to have a reasonable response.
>
> Thanks.
> Aidan
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Eric A. Coles
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